[AT] Harvest photo

Gene Dotson gdotsly at watchtv.net
Fri Mar 23 02:09:37 PDT 2007


    Ralph;

    Thanks for the pictures. My present combine is a White 7300, which is 
the follow on to the 542 which was sold here as the Oliver 545. Have spent 
some time driving the Oliver 525 and 545 here. Have never operated a Case 
combine, but have heard the small cylinder diameter was a bad point on them. 
The bigger 1000 and 1600 series remedied this.
    My first combine when I started farming in 1972 was the John Deere 42. 
That year was a total washout for harvest and had to wait for the ground to 
freeze to get the soybeans combined. The 42 was traded on an IH 303 with a 
cab. This machine was a total disaster and throughly worn out. I kept it a 
couple of years then traded it on a 1 year old IH 715 and was really in 
heaven with this machine.
    Have run oats with a Deere 55 open station combine. The dust was awful 
and seemed to head straight from the header to the operators platform. 
Normal harvest temperature is 90 to 95 degrees here so the sweat assured the 
dust didn't escape.

    Spring weather here, 50 to 60 degrees. The soil is totally saturated. 2 
inches predicted for today. Flood warnings already posted. Looks like the 
oat crop here will be late again, mostly Amish for their horses.

                Gene



> Gene, forgot to mention that the crop being harvested in the photo was
> spring wheat. It could have easily been straight cut if the combine had
> a working attachment but all it had was the Sund pickup as far as I know.
> Heres a picture I have had up at the red power forum for a while now
> showing my late model 930 Case hitched to the 460 pull type Case back in
> 1977. I started out with a 730 which had adequate power but it was
> traded on the 930 which worked even better having more weight and power,
> power steering too. I learned a lot about combines on that 460. Such as
> the popular belief that cylinder width equals combine capacity. This
> machine had a 40 inch wide cylinder but I doubt it had as much capacity
> as a good 36 inch machine. It had a small diameter cylinder which did
> not have the "flywheel effect" of increased inertia that heavier
> cylinders had. That combined with a dried up slipping beater drive belt
> that would stop at the slightest load caused a lot of plugged cylinders,
> bent crowbars and frustration.
> The 460 was the same capacity as the 600 or 660 self propelled.
> http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=40360
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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